Hip-Hop Thread Genre • Page 623

I grew up in the one for the club, one for the ladies, one for the streets, one for mom etc. era. A lot of albums now, even albums I like, are kinda too one-note for me.

#JustOldHeadThings

 

I LOVE Lizzo's album the most of any hip-hop album this year though, although it obviously stradles pop and hip hop way more than maybe any other album this year

 

Musical diversity within a single album is something that you hear less and less in hip-hop recently, I definitely agree.

 

I know I sound like a broken record but the Rich Homie Quan album from this year really outdoes a majority of the trap I've heard in recent years. He really pours his heart into his lyrics and vocals and you can feel it, but for some reason gets little to no attention anymore.

 

Yeah. That’s fine I guess, but it makes me connect with way fewer albums.

 

Young Dolph and Key Glock - Dum & Dummer
Chief Keef - Glotoven
Lil Keed - Long Live Mexico
Young Nudy & Pierre Bourne - Sli’merre

some of my favorite albums from this year that I didn’t see talked about much around these parts

 

gimme a few key tracks and I'll check em out

 

it's really short, only 7 songs clocking in at 23 minutes--just hit play and see if you vibe with it.

 

Yeah there weren’t that many hip hop albums I liked this year sadly. Just looked at my list and it’s really short

Tyler the Creator
Kevin Abstract
Brockhampton
Danny Brown
Lizzo
Freddie Gibbs
Rico Nasty

 

deal.

 

You are easily the most in line with my current hip hop tastes.

 

lemme know whatchyu think.

 

I don’t think I ever checked this out, is it better than his tape from last year Rich As In Spirit? I thought that was cool but kinda samey and not up to the standard he set during the Rich Gang era.

 

I definitely liked The Gif better than Rich As In Spirit, but none of his stuff has reached the level of excellence of Rich Gang IMO. He's still one of the better melodic rappers out there though.

 

Listening now and yeah I’m def into this more than Rich As In Spirit, good looks

 

Naw you're not being rude. I wish I had reasoning as to why I like those songs. It just sounds good to my ears, lol. I do think the lyrics are good, but I don't exactly relate to them being a middle class white boy from the suburbs. Something about that album just stuck with me though and I've returned to it many many times. I actually meant to recommend the song Through Da Storm rather than Dying Breed, but if you don't like what you've already heard it's probably not going to change your mind.

 

“Get By” by Talib Kweli has been my jam since it was released when I was 13. Still my favorite hip-hop track to this day. Just sayin.

 

So I'm listening to the Polo G record now and it's definitely the lyrics that attract me. He has a way with storytelling and his rhyme scheme/ choice of words/ delivery come across authentic. He seems like he really means what he's saying and it feels like it's coming from the heart. @irthesteve If you just totally didn't like it, that's fine, but I would actually recommend listening to "Through Da Storm" if you're still on the fence.

 

I mean he has the line, "Keep smokin' these dead n***as, I feel like Redman"


but for real, he does have some more poignant stuff too

 

Droog had a low key great year. Both his albums were great, definitely gonna creep into my AOTY list.

Wiki’s album is fucking great too. I’ve always dug his stuff, but this new album has got me going back to his older stuff a lot more than before too.

 

The thing with a lot of trap for me is it has to really stand out for me to listen. I can think of maybe 3 or 4 acts who I actively listen to (Uzi, Future, sometimes Migos and Thug). There’s a quantity over quality feel with a lot of trap artists too. They release tapes that will have two or three good tracks and a shit tonne of filler. If they took their time and released a focused project, they may have more staying power too.

And I don’t even think I’m being an old head over this either. I want to like trap more than I do, its just there’s so much more garbage to wade through than other rap sub genres. It’s exhausting... shit, thats a very old head thing to say. Maybe just ignore me haha

 

Nah I agree with that. The good stuff is very good but it’s clearly the prevalent sound of the moment and a lot of it is very samey.

 

I need to listen to the Keef one. He puts out too much stuff for me to keep up. The other 3 are all good though.

 

This has actually been the year of artists I love or used to love really disappointing me with new projects

ScHoolboy Q
Big KRIT
Chance
Kanye
Kevin Abstract
Logic
Anderson Paak (I really have barely gone back to Ventura but still regularly listen to Oxnard)
YG
Goldlink


Have all dropped my least favorite or maybe second least favorite album by them

 

Also, I know it's a touchy topic but I really fail to see how the Lizzo album is a hip-hop album